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As Dick Patton reveals in an article in Human Events, these are all companies bought by Berkshire Hathaway when their family owners were forced to sell to settle their estate tax bill.

In addition, Buffett's life insurance companies sell survivorship life insurance, which is primarily sold to pay estate taxes and transfer some wealth into a form that can be transferred to heirs without being subject to the tax.